Generation 8
by Heather Comina
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Pub Date 28 May 2023 | Archive Date 9 Jun 2023
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Description
What if the trees could tell us secrets that could save our future?
Lilly’s life is turned upside down when the global pandemic hits. In one sweep, she loses her job as an airline steward and is forced to move to rural Oxfordshire and live on her grandparents' farm. From flying high to living low, she spends her days trying to forget and her nights haunted by dark dreams where old Ma Hakka leads her to the depths of despair.
Her first thought is to keep the strangely disturbing nightmares to herself, but as they mount, the desire to share is overwhelming. During a group therapy session, she discovers that she is not the only one to experience such dreams. With the help of her newfound ally, Margaret, Lilly uncovers a series of dream accounts spanning seven generations which ultimately reveals the source of her dream – the Signal tree.
As her understanding of local history unfolds and her knowledge of how trees cast old lessons within the patterns of their wood, she is able to experience things through a new, longer-term, tree perspective. Can this new knowledge help her to re-learn the ancestral ways and, together with family and friends, create a path to a better future for the next generation – Generation 8?
A Note From the Publisher
Marketing Plan
Thrilling and fascinating eco-fiction novel
Unlike others of its genre, tells a positive story of hope and re-connection
Author has a background in climate change and sustainability
Thrilling and fascinating eco-fiction novel
Unlike others of its genre, tells a positive story of hope and re-connection
Author has a background in climate change and sustainability
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781805145714 |
| PRICE | £3.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 392 |
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Featured Reviews
Sarah B, Reviewer
I enjoyed this unusual novel which, combined a ultra naturalistic story of a young woman, forced to live with relatives in the Britishcountry during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic with a spooky story of dreams related to an old tree. It’s always difficult to combine realism with fantasy, but I felt that this book managed to do this quite nicely and I love the feeling that trees could somehow communicate with us. The concept that trees live through many human lifestyles as it has such a long life of its own, allows the tree to see the damage that we are doing to nature through climate change.
The elements of the story that I most enjoyed. However, it was the naturalistic story and then found that it brought back a few nice memories. I personally had of the lockdown which was all being able to view nature in a slower fashion.
The author has a clear easily read flowing prose style which was a pleasure to read.
The authors characterisation is very real, and felt that I had met people like those that she describes in my own life. The main character is the author has a number of minor characters who were all just as perfectly described
I would recommend the book to those who like subtle, magical realism, and who are at the stage where they are able to read about the pandemic without finding it to triggering.
I reviewed this novel on NetGalley UK. The book is published in the UK on the 28th of May 2023 by matador. This review will appear on Goodreads, net galley, UK, and my book block bionicSarahsbooks.wordpress.com
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